Environmental issues in unconventional social advertising: A semiotic perspective.

Even though semiotic analysis of media texts has always viewed advertising as an exemplary object of investigation, only a limited number of research studies has concentrated on unconventional social campaigns. As we will try to demonstrate through the analysis of some international environment oriented case studies, social advertising is not merely a sub genre of advertising language, and the effectiveness of communication strategies used by social campaigns in fact depends upon a sort of \u201csemiotic autonomy.\u201d Using a textual semiotic approach, we will focus on some of the most frequently recurring unconventional strategies in environment awareness campaigns, with the aim of exploring the issue of social advertising effectiveness in depth

Soggettività tributaria e capacità contributiva nel consolidato nazionale.

I principi cardine della riforma IRES con particolare riferimento all'introduzione del consolidato. La questione della soggettività giuridica delle società consolidate. Consolidato nazionale e principio di capacità contributiva.I principi cardine della riforma IRES con particolare riferimento all'introduzione del consolidato. La questione della soggettività giuridica delle società consolidate. Consolidato nazionale e principio di capacità contributiva.LUISS PhD Thesi

Barriers to Patient Centered Medical Homes in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

Abstract Purpose: As patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) age, they encounter age associated comorbidities, congruous with the general population. At their ACHD appointments, they present with untreated medical problems associated with asthma, diabetes, contraception, and respiratory infections. This project seeks to identify barriers associated with establishing care in patient-centered medical home (PCMH); understand current primary care utilization and identify patient perceptions contributing to lack of follow up in primary care. Methods: An 84-question validated survey completed electronically by patients (\u3e 18 years) presenting at the outpatient congenital cardiac clinic between September 12, 2019 to November 15, 2019 was used to evaluate barriers to care, patient perceptions on healthcare and healthcare utilization patterns. Results: Survey responses filled out by 30 participants with a mean age 44 ±16.9 years were used to evaluate barriers to care. 80% (n=24) were not aware of a PCMH model; but 77% (n=23) were willing to drive 1-50 miles to access a primary care physician. All participants had access to PCMH within 20 miles of their residence. In a multivariate model, BCQ scores were not statistically significant when accounting for insurance status, CHD severity, or having regular primary care. 93% felt their ACHD cardiologist would inform them if they needed to see someone else. 43% expressed distrust for providers not trained in their heart condition. The largest barriers to care were taking time off work (24%), healthcare costs (23%), getting a thorough exam (23%), meeting the needs of other family members (20%), reaching the office by phone (17%), appointment lag time (17%), long waiting room time (17%), lack of communication within the healthcare system (17%), and getting questions answered (17%). Conclusions: This project illustrated a lack of awareness of PCMHs in ACHD patients. Health insurance status, having a primary care provider, ethnicity and education level did not have a statistically significant effect on BCQ scores. However, responses to the survey yielded valuable information for improving care for this population

El contexto incorporado al curriculum escolar. La salud reproductiva

Este proyecto fue dirigido a docentes de la EGB3 y Escuelas para adultos y se organizó en tres módulos de 40 horas cada uno lo que hizo un total de 120 horas. Los dos primeros módulos dieron marco teórico a los docentes y el último permitió formular trabajos con proyectos escolares y comunitarios. Esto facilitó la articulación del proyecto Polo de Desarrollo del Instituto de Nivel Terciario de Villa Ángela con la temática de la Salud Reproductiva

Grounding Urban Governance on Housing Affordability: A Conceptual Framework for Policy Analysis. Insights from Vienna

Growing and attractive cities, such as Vienna, globally face housing crises. Urban land rent (inflated by the huge housing demand in attractive areas and the consequent housing shortage) is transferred to housing prices and results in increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible cities. Housing affordability is a critical factor for enjoying the use value of housing and the broader set of values associated with cities. To assure urban agglomerations' inclusiveness and spatial justice, urban governance should be "grounded" on affordability by redistributing land rent and keeping housing prices hooked on income levels. However, the relation between urban land rent and housing affordability is rarely connected in Housing studies. Furthermore, it is often neglected by urban governors, generally competing to increase housing prices and attract investments. This article contributes to fill this policy/research gap and offers new conceptual avenues for the analysis of urban housing affordability governance. A theoretical basis and a coherent analytical framework for policy analysis are empirically applied in a case study of the city of Vienna, focusing on affordable rental housing. Based on peculiarities—of history, political stability, and a solid welfare system—the Viennese case offers relevant insights for disentangling the complex network of policies and institutions that ground urban growth on affordability

The dark side of consumer-smart object relationship: A non-user perspective

4noopenSmart Objects promise to become an essential presence in consumer life and routines. Due to their abilities, these devices can be perceived as a social entity and also able to play different kinds of social roles. However, the diffusion of Smart Objects is not meeting the expectation. Pivoting on Smart Object social roles, the relational approach, already used in the marketing literature, can be an appropriate tool to understand the non-user resistance toward these innovative devices with anthropomorphic features. Thirty-three non-users participated in ZMET interviews. Four types of fears emerged from the coding of the interviews. Each fear is associated with a specific social role played by the Smart Object: Fear of Being Controlled (the Smart Object as a Stalker); Fear of Being Dominated (the Smart Object as a Captor); Fear of Being Subordinated (the Smart Object as a Master); Fear of Losing Self-Control (the Smart Object as a Seducer).openAccademicoMonsurrò Luigi, Querci Ilaria, Peverini Paolo, Romani SimonaMonsurrò, Luigi; Querci, Ilaria; Peverini, Paolo; Romani, Simon

Rethinking the intersection between social networks, urban territories and everyday life practices. A critical approach to the spreading of hashtags in urban storytelling

In recent years the centrality of a common sense emerged with increasing strength in the social media scenario: the practice of sharing experiences, practices and rituals is fostered by competition among the manifold networks that enliven a communications ecosystem more and more based on everyday life storytelling. The aim of this article is to contribute to sociosemiotic recognition of several particularly widespread aspects of the renegotiation of urban everyday life fostered by the pervasive concept of media overexposure. In particular, the article, at the intersection of three axes \u2013 social networks, urban territories and everyday life practices \u2013 concentrates on the spread of hashtags, seemingly obvious and \u201ctransparent\u201d signs that contribute to blurring the borders that separate everyday life in urban territories from the conversations about it. In the social network scenario Instagram is an exemplary case worth investigating, since its growing popularity holds conse- quences in the representation of urban territories

Two-dimensional x-ray beam phase sensing

We present a new method to analyze quantitatively the wave front of a partially coherent x-ray beam. The technique is based on the use of two-dimensional speckle patterns combined with digital image correlation algorithms and offers a pixel size resolution, a high accuracy, and a reduced sensitivity to mechanical vibrations thanks to a very simple setup. The requirements on transverse and longitudinal coherence are also low. Finally, we show how the method can be used for phase contrast imaging applications by a single sample exposure process